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From the air

aerial view of Wildlife Refuge and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Wildlife Refuge

A named reservoir in Christchurch, at Hillmorton.

On the map as
reservoir
The suburb
Hillmorton

Where it sits

The pin sits near the water’s middle; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

49 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 36 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General Canterbury · 20 October 2025
Water Leak 96E Warren Crescent, Hillmorton · 30 September 2025
Water Fountain Canterbury Agricultural Park 102 Curletts Road, Hillmorton · 18 September 2025
Dumped Rubbish Canterbury · 19 July 2025

Questions, answered briefly

What is Wildlife Refuge?

A named reservoir in Christchurch, at Hillmorton, as the open map records it.

Where exactly is Wildlife Refuge?

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position for the reservoir, roughly the water’s middle. Neighbours on the register are near it, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the names are OpenStreetMap’s, a named lake, lagoon, wetland or spring inside the city boundary (ODbL). The dual names are recorded as the map carries them; a pin is the mapper’s position, not a surveyed mark.

This page as markdown: /lake/wildlife-refuge.md · the whole roll as data: /lakes.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=lakes · the waterways: /river · the coast: /coast · every roll, counted: /geography.